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surveyor, and his assistants, each block having four lots 12 by 12 rods. Parties selecting lots applied to the Probate Court of Beaver County, which, considered their rightful claims and awarded to the owner the lot and block he was entitled to,, and upon such a showing the Mayor of Beaver City deeded to the applicant under the order a said Court the said lots and tracts of land.
The lands adjoining Beaver City on the east, south and west were all classified and surveyed into 5 and 11 acre lots. These lots were drawn for under the several classes. Class One was land close to Beaver City with; first right water-right. No larger than a 10 acre lot was awarded to any person in one class. This was done so that all might have land with a primary water right close to town. Other classes were farther out from the city. Thus all the land which was awarded to Beaver City by the U.S Patent was disposed of.
As soon as the Government Survey was made, certain early settlers were permitted to make homestead entries with the understanding that land which had been selected under the above plan and farmed and occupied more or less since 1856 and 1857, when this local survey was made, should be deeded to those who were entitled to it. The following persons, under the foregoing arrangements, made homestead entries: William Greenwood, Samuel Jackson, James Warby, Thomas Parkinson, James Low, Joshua Chillis Hall, Wilson G. Nowers, Edward M. Davis, John R. Murdock, John X. Smith, Wiliam Moyes, Philip Baker, John Muir, Philo T. Farnsworth, Thomas Shannon, Andrew Patterson, David Levi, Henry Blackner, Sidney Tanner, Samuel O. White Sr. and others for lands which lay farther out from the city. Thus, all the lands were homesteaded from Beaver to the town of Greenville.
The few descendants of the original homesteader who still occupy portions of this land are as follows

surveyor, and his assistants, each block having four lots 12 by 12 rods. Parties selecting lots applied to the Probate Court of Beaver County, which, considered their rightful claims and awarded to the owner the lot and block he was entitled to,, and upon such a showing the Mayor of Beaver City deeded to the applicant under the order a said Court the said lots and tracts of land.
The lands adjoining Beaver City on the east, south and west were all classified and surveyed into 5 and 11 acre lots. These lots were drawn for under the several classes. Class One was land close to Beaver City with; first right water-right. No larger than a 10 acre lot was awarded to any person in one class. This was done so that all might have land with a primary water right close to town. Other classes were farther out from the city. Thus all the land which was awarded to Beaver City by the U.S Patent was disposed of.
As soon as the Government Survey was made, certain early settlers were permitted to make homestead entries with the understanding that land which had been selected under the above plan and farmed and occupied more or less since 1856 and 1857, when this local survey was made, should be deeded to those who were entitled to it. The following persons, under the foregoing arrangements, made homestead entries: William Greenwood, Samuel Jackson, James Warby, Thomas Parkinson, James Low, Joshua Chillis Hall, Wilson G. Nowers, Edward M. Davis, John R. Murdock, John X. Smith, Wiliam Moyes, Philip Baker, John Muir, Philo T. Farnsworth, Thomas Shannon, Andrew Patterson, David Levi, Henry Blackner, Sidney Tanner, Samuel O. White Sr. and others for lands which lay farther out from the city. Thus, all the lands were homesteaded from Beaver to the town of Greenville.
The few descendants of the original homesteader who still occupy portions of this land are as follows